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Music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good or bad to the deaf.
- Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)
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Best Quotes about Music

1.
I can't listen to that much Wagner. I start getting the urge to conquer Poland.
Woody Allen

2.
Jazz came to America three hundred years ago in chains.
Whiteman, Paul

3.
If music be the food of love, play on; Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die. That strain again! it had a dying fall: O, it came o'er my ear like the sweet sound That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing and giving odour!
William Shakespeare

4.
Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.
Plato

5.
A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become.
Auden, W. H.

6.
My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary.
Martin Luther

7.
Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.
Durrell, Lawrence

8.
It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness and of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature, and everlasting beauty of monotony.
Britten, Benjamin

9.
Music expresses that which can not be said and on which it is impossible to be silent
Hugo, Victor

10.
I think everyone should have a Beatles phase in their life. I think it's part of growing up in the Western world.
Jadelr and Cristina Cordova

11.
There's a basic rule which runs through all kinds of music, kind of an unwritten rule. I don't know what it is. But I've got it.
Wood, Ron

12.
It's a marvelous feeling when someone says I want to do this song of yours because they've connected to it. That's what I'm after.
Carpenter, Mary Chapin

13.
Conductors must give unmistakable and suggestive signals to the orchestra, not choreography to the audience.
Szell, George

14.
Medicine to produce health must examine disease; and music, to create harmony must investigate discord.
Plutarch

15.
If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music.
Carlyle, Thomas

16.
When griping grief the heart doth wound, and doleful dumps the mind opresses, then music, with her silver sound, with speedy help doth lend redress.
William Shakespeare

17.
My music is best understood by children and animals.
Igor Stravinsky

18.
Music is the effort we make to explain to ourselves how our brains work. We listen to Bach transfixed because this is listening to a human mind.
Thomas, Lewis

19.
If a thing isn't worth saying, you sing it.
Pierre Beaumarchais

20.
If you can walk you can dance. If you can talk you can sing.
Proverb, Zimbabwe

21.
Sounds like the blues are composed of feeling, finesse, and fear.
Gibbons, Billy

22.
A jazz musician is a juggler who uses harmonies instead of oranges.
Green, Benny

23.
Alas! all music jars when the soul's out of tune.
Cervantes, Miguel De

24.
Music is spiritual. The music business is not.
Morrison, Van

25.
I often thought that if there had been a good rap group around in those days, I might have chosen a career in music instead of politics.
Nixon, Richard M.

26.
Music, the greatest good that mortals know, And all of heaven we have below.
Addison, Joseph

27.
The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes --ah, that is where the art resides.
Schnabel, Artur

28.
Modern music is as dangerous as narcotics.
Mascagni, Pietro

29.
The musical emotion springs precisely from the fact that at each moment the composer withholds or adds more or less than the listener anticipates on the basis of a pattern that he thinks he can guess, but that he is incapable of wholly divining. If the composer withholds more than we anticipate, we experience a delicious falling sensation; we feel we have been torn from a stable point on the musical ladder and thrust into the void. When the composer withholds less, the opposite occurs: he forces us to perform gymnastic exercises more skillful than our own.
Levi-Strauss, Claude

30.
A good composer does not imitate; he steals.
Stravinsky, Igor

31.
Americans want grungy people, stabbing themselves in the head on stage. They get a bright bunch like us, with deodorant on, they don't get it.
Gallagher, Liam

32.
We are aware that the conductor is not really making the music, it is making him -- if he is relaxed, open and attuned, then the invisible will take possession of him; through him, it will reach us.
Brook, Peter (Stephen Paul)

33.
If music be the food of love, play on; give me excess of it, that, surfeiting, the appetite may sicken, and so die.
William Shakespeare

34.
I think no woman I have had ever gave me so sweet a moment, or at so light a price, as the moment I owe to a newly heard musical phrase.
Stendhal, Henri B.

35.
If one hears bad music, it is one's duty to drown it by one's conversation.
Wilde, Oscar

36.
Without Elvis, none of us could have made it.
Holly, Buddy

37.
Rock 'n Roll is an asylum for emotional idiots.
Neville, Richard

38.
You don't need any brains to listen to music.
Pavarotti, Luciano

39.
If you develop an ear for sounds that are musical it is like developing an ego. You begin to refuse sounds that are not musical and that way cut yourself off from a good deal of experience.
John Cage

40.
We fight our way through the massed and leveled collective safe taste of the Top 40, just looking for a little something we can call our own. But when we find it and jam the radio to hear it again it isn't just ours -- it is a link to thousands of others who are sharing it with us. As a matter of a single song this might mean very little; as culture, as a way of life, you can't beat it.
Marcus, Greil

41.
He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would fully suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, senseless brutality, deplorable love-of-country stance, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action! It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.
Einstein, Albert

42.
But then there's a moment like tonight, a profound and transcendent experience, the feeling as if a door has opened, and it's all because of that instrument, that incredible, magical instrument.
Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

43.
Music is well said to be the speech of angels; in fact, nothing among the utterances allowed to man is felt to be so divine. It brings us near to the infinite.
Carlyle, Thomas

44.
I would advise you to keep your overhead down; avoid a major drug habit; play everyday, and take it in front of other people. They need to hear it, and you need them to hear it.
Taylor, James

45.
Great music is that which penetrates the ear with facility and leaves the memory with difficulty. Magical music never leaves the memory.
Beecham, Sir Thomas

46.
Hell is full of musical amateurs: music is the brandy of the damned.
George Bernard Shaw

47.
The English may not like music, but they absolutely love the noise it makes.
Beecham, Sir Thomas

48.
Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing.
John Erskine

49.
The history of a people is found in its songs.
Jellinek, George

50.
I hate music, especially when it's played.
Jimmy Durante


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